‘Tár’ and ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Named Best Picture by L.A. Film Critics

[Randy]

‘Tár’ and ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Named Best Picture by L.A. Film Critics

'Living' actor Bill Nighly and 'Tár' star Cate Blanchett both received the best lead performance from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

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The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has named both Everything Everywhere All at Once and Tár as its best picture for 2022.

On Sunday, the critics association announced its winners for the best films of 2022. Living actor Bill Nighly and Tár star Cate Blanchett were both named best lead performance. This was the first year that LAFCA introduced gender-neutral acting categories, including two awards for best lead performance and two for best supporting performance.

Tár took home several awards, including Todd Field being named best director and best screenplay.

The best supporting performance went to Dolly De Leon in Triangle of Sadness and Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All at Once.

Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO won the best film not in the English language, and Laura Poitras’ All The Beauty And The Bloodshed won the best documentary/nonfiction film.

The best animated movie went to Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio and EO’s Michał Dymek took home best cinematography.

The organization previously chose writer and director Claire Denis as the recipient of this year’s career achievement award. Denis made her filmmaking debut in 1988 with Chocolat. Some of her other film credits include Beau Travail (1999), The Intruder (2004), 35 Shots of Rum (2008) and White Material (2009). During her career, Denis has received several international festival prizes and also won the Berlin International Film Festival’s directing prize for Both Sides of the Blade and the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival for Stars at Noon.

“We are thrilled to be honoring Claire Denis, one of the best living film auteurs and a master at depicting the identity crises faced by both the colonizer and the colonized,” LAFCA president Claudia Puig said prior to the event. “A distinctive sociopolitical point of view and anti-patriarchal sensibility infuse her work, which is deeply evocative — often tender and intimate but never sentimental — and always uncompromising.”

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association includes Los Angeles-based professional film critics working in print and electronic media. Members hold their annual awards vote to honor screen excellence on and off the camera.

For the first time in three years, the organization is holding an in-person awards event on Jan. 14, 2023, to honor the winners.

Thoughts?

 

[Nebulous]

‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ was a masterpiece! Go watch it if you haven't seen it yet.